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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2023-44270 EUVD-2023-2456GHSA-7fh5-64p2-3v2j

PostCSS line return parsing error

Published Sep 29, 2023 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in PostCSS before 8.4.31. The vulnerability affects linters using PostCSS to parse external untrusted CSS. An attacker can prepare CSS in such a way that it will contains parts parsed by PostCSS as a CSS comment. After processing by PostCSS, it will be included in the PostCSS output in CSS nodes (rules, properties) despite being included in a comment.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-postcss 8.4.31+~cs8.0.26-1 —
Debian 13 node-postcss 8.4.31+~cs8.0.26-1 —
Debian 12 node-postcss 8.4.20+~cs8.0.23-1+deb12u1 —
Debian 11 node-postcss 8.2.1+~cs5.3.23-8+deb11u1 DLA-4003-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-postcss No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS node-postcss No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 node-postcss No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS node-postcss No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-postcss No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-postcss No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed velociraptor 0.7.0.4.git142.862ef23-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14663-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm postcss < 8.4.31 8.4.31 GHSA-7fh5-64p2-3v2j

Advisories 7

References